Overview I’m sure you’ve already read a lot of good reasons on why moving to Dynamics 365 Business Central Online is the greatest idea ever. I will 110% agree with that statement. But this article, I’m going to list out some of the reasons that comes to my mind when working with clients on DynamicsRead more
Overview A lot of people using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central want to learn how to develop and publish an extension on their Business Central tenant. What drives this is that in the old Dynamics NAV, the users are able to easily add fields onto a page even if they’re not developers. Now that they’veRead more
Overview Relax folks, Microsoft didn’t remove the Export to Excel function in Dynamics 365 Business Central starting from v19. It’s just been moved. The Difference Old Version (or versions prior to Business Central v19): Starting from Business Central v19: Why The Change? The direction from Microsoft is to integrate more and more Microsoft 365 applicationRead more
Overview Permission setting in Dynamics 365 Business Central is a serious, but not serious topic. When a company coming from a legacy system or no system, they will always want to restrict everything. The older systems are easier to restrict because there’s not a lot of functions you need to worry about. A considerable amountRead more
Overview On Dynamics 365 Business Central release 18, Microsoft made significant changes to the bank reconciliation features. Most of the articles and videos on entering beginning bank balances are still based on the older versions Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV. Just thought I would share with the community on setting up your beginningRead more
Just a short post this month. Wanted to share an interview I did with MSDynamicsWorld about Business Central and its customers. It’s 45 minutes in length. Hope it doesn’t put you to sleep! https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/msdw-podcast-alex-chow-serving-dynamics-365-business-central-customers
Overview I’ll admit that I’m a bit of an old school person when it comes to implementing Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly called Dynamics NAV). I believe when you make a decision to implement Dynamics 365 Business Central for your business, the transition should be smooth with minimal disruption. In fact, these transition often makeRead more
Overview In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamics NAV), when doing costing and profitability analysis, you need to differentiate between a transaction’s True Cost and Accounting Cost. These terms will not appear on any official documentation or manuals, I made them up for a lack of better terms. To better explain the difference betweenRead more
Overview Sometimes, how a computer system does accounting will be different than how traditional accountants does accounting. One of the subjects that always come up for debate is how COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) is calculated. The Postings In Dynamics 365 Business Central, when a purchase of inventory is made, 4 General Ledger accounts areRead more
It’s that time of the year again. Close out the year! Most companies align their fiscal year to the calendar year so right around this time, we usually get a ton of support calls from people that forgot how to close the year end and need a quick refresher. So I made a quick 2Read more